Software Development recap for week 50/2024

From 9/12/2024 to 15/12/2024

Articles #

• Alphabet’s quantum computer solved a problem which would take a supercomputer 17 septillion years to solve 1067 comments in 4 discussions

• A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages 1035 comments in 16 discussions

• The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding 665 comments in 3 discussions

• John Carmack on Functional Programming in C++ 610 comments in 6 discussions

• I scraped 10M programming job offers for 15 months and here are the highest paid programming languages in 2024 563 comments in 3 discussions

• Why am I writing a Rust compiler in C? 561 comments in 6 discussions

• Mozilla Firefox removes "Do Not Track" Feature support: Here's what it means for your Privacy 519 comments in 7 discussions

• Introducing Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust 515 comments in 3 discussions

• Antirez is rejoining Redis 504 comments in 4 discussions

• HTML Form Validation is heavily underused 484 comments in 6 discussions

• Problems with Python dependency management 482 comments in 5 discussions

• The Google Willow thing 455 comments in 2 discussions

• Rails is better low code than low code 343 comments in 6 discussions

• Douglas Crockford Is Not Your Dad 325 comments in 3 discussions

• Handles are the better pointers (2018) 311 comments in 8 discussions

Releases #

• 3 shell scripts to improve your writing, or "My Ph.D. advisor rewrote himself in bash." 347 comments in 7 discussions

• TidesDB - Open-source high performance, transactional, durable storage engine/column store (v0.2.0b RELEASE!) 117 comments in 7 discussions

• htmx 2.0.4 has been released 116 comments in 2 discussions

• The Shepherd 1.0.0 released: the init system written in Scheme 110 comments in 4 discussions

• Himalaya, CLI to manage emails: v1.0.0 101 comments in 2 discussions

• Apache NetBeans 24 released 64 comments in 1 discussion

• Transmission 4.1.0-beta.1 has been released with major code changes and is looking for new C++ contributors 63 comments in 1 discussion

• Inertia v2.0 Released: Redefining Frontend Development for Laravel 25 comments in 1 discussion

• Laravel Nova 5.0 released with new tab panels, support for Inertia 2.0 and much more 25 comments in 1 discussion

• Scala 3.6 released! 22 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• Cognitive Load is what matters 680 comments in 17 discussions

• The Rune Programming Language 186 comments in 1 discussion

• markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown 157 comments in 2 discussions

• The new Luon programming language combines concepts from Oberon and Lua and targets LuaJIT 155 comments in 5 discussions

• Sled: An Embedded Database in Rust 151 comments in 4 discussions

• Fnm – Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust 137 comments in 5 discussions

• Helium: Lighter Web Automation with Python 111 comments in 2 discussions

• I benchmarked eight Go SQLite drivers and here are the results 101 comments in 5 discussions

• Implementing Rust-like traits for C++ 20 (with no runtime overhead) 98 comments in 2 discussions

• [Open Source] Build deeply-integrated AI assistants & agents into your applications 90 comments in 5 discussions

Videos #

• Software is Way Less Performant Today 900 comments in 1 discussion

• Interview with Daniel Roth (PPM Blazor @ Microsoft) on the future of Blazor with Nick Chapsas 111 comments in 1 discussion

• Common Lisp vs. Python naive performance on Fibonacci numbers 54 comments in 1 discussion

• PHP 8.4: Interfaces now support properties! 50 comments in 1 discussion

• Reflection is Not Contemplation 32 comments in 1 discussion

• Async Rust in Embedded Systems with Embassy - Dario Nieuwenhuis 21 comments in 1 discussion

• First look at a 6 track looper with FX, using Rust, Tauri, and SolidJS 20 comments in 1 discussion